India Café

Quiz questions:

Round 1: Literary India

Q 1 Which was the first epic poem from India? Who wrote it?

A 1 “The Ramayana” by Sage Valmiki.

Q 2 Which poet’s translation of an Indian language book in English had an introduction by W B Yeats?

A 2 Rabindranath Tagore.
Ref: http://www.calcuttaweb.com/tagore/tagore.htm

Q 3 Apart from Antar, who is the other hero in “The Calcutta Chromosome” a sci-fi story written by Amitav Ghosh?

A 3 L. Murugan.

Q 4 Who was C.F. Andrews and how is he important to Indian literature?

A 4 He was a close and dear friend of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore wrote him many letters between 1913-1922. He had them published in book form under the title “Letters from Abroad”.

Q 5 Which novelist comes close to dissecting a major political problem of India in his recent novel, but ends up serving a less-than-best piece of fiction?

A 5 Salman Rushdie, in “Shalimar the Clown” discusses the Kashmir problem in a fiction-novel setting.

Q 6 Two brothers: one, a cartoonist, and the other, a novelist. Name them.

A 6 Cartoonist: R K Laxman
Novelist: R K Narayan

Q 7 In Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, what was the nick-name of Dr Aadam Aziz, Rushdie’s grandfather?

A 7 Aadam, the nakkoo, the nosey one.

Q 8 What is the title of the first chapter of Arundhati Roy’s book “The God of Small Things”?

A 8 “Paradise Pickles and Preserves”.

Q 9 Which exact part of Kolkata is Dominique Lapierre’s “The City of Joy” about?

A 9 “Anand Nagar” a slum, which literally translates into the title of the book.

Q 10 Who is Sir Vidia Naipaul’s wife? How has she influenced his writing?

A 10 Nadira Alvi is a famous Pakistani Journalist and Naipaul’s wife. He has written many books on discovering Islam such as “Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey” and “Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the converted peoples”.

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